Since I was little I've always been passionate about science fiction, the literary genre that talks about the relationship between our increasingly technical society and science and technology. A few years ago, I made a discovery that allows me to explore at both the "scientific" and creative levels: Steampunk, a retro-futurist subgenre that maps out pasts and futures that have never existed, with 19th century machines pushed to the limit, but transformed into movement... it reaches into art and aesthetics, it invites us to reflect on our current world, and to engage in almost unlimited creativity, jumping between scientific optimism and dystopia. I want to share it in order to encourage more people to explore it.